Infrastructure - Chemical Process Engineering Graduate Scheme (2019)

As a Graduate Process Engineer within our Mechanical, Electrical and Process Engineering team (MEP), you will help to support our clients across the Water sector in the UK and internationally.

Our MEP team provides mechanical, electrical, ICA (instrumentation, control and automation) and process engineering skills and expertise to water companies, supporting their capital (both new build and refurbishment) and operational (problem solving on existing sites) projects and programmes.

Whatever your ambitions we’ve a role to match your passion and degree, while our training will help you achieve Chartered status and develop industry skills that are highly sought after.

Join us in our vision to be the world’s best Infrastructure Consultancy, working with a broad range of clients to influence policy, future technology and global sustainability.

Ailsa is an Assistant Process Engineer within the Infrastructure division. Here she is talking about her experience at Atkins, in her own words, with her own camera!

What you’ll be doingWith a Master’s degree in process engineering you’ll get the opportunity to develop your capability in a wide range of exciting projects including; water and wastewater treatment, sludge treatment, pumping stations, pipelines, cooling water systems and computer aided design (CAD). Water, both clean and dirty, is a critical resource needing careful management and you could play a key part in this!

Key activities will include:

Feasibility, outline and detailed process design work

Working with and developing process tools such as mass balances and process flow diagrams

Development of design solutions for clean and wastewater applications

Technical report writing

Where you’ll be basedDerby (Please note applications have now closed for Epsom)

A flexible approach to travel as our projects and training may take you to a variety of locations in the UK and possibly abroad

Ideally some design or site experience gained on a work placement.

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Rewards and BenefitsIf you join us you will be working on some of the most challenging engineering projects of our time, helping to shape the future of Infrastructure. You will have opportunities to work closely with clients, spending time within their organisations and taking learning from some of the most experienced engineers in the industry. Our 3-year flexible graduate scheme promises to give you the support you need to develop your technical, commercial and consultancy skills. Some of our benefits, to name a few, include:

A settling in payment of £2,500 when you join – paid within the first month

Continuous support and mentoring to achieve chartered status with your chosen institution, funded by Atkins. With a chartership bonus of £2,500 once complete

A robust career development plan, including a library of core learning modules and on the job technical training

25 days’ annual leave, plus bank holidays, with the option to buy up to 15 additional days per year

2 volunteer days per year for you to use for a cause that matters to you

Assigned graduate buddy upon joining and a strong graduate network across all locations

Various annual events, such as our 2-day graduate induction, ski trips, away weekends and team building activities.